Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-09
LATER NEWS NOTES.

One of the mosthorrible tragedies that ever
occurred in Dakota was enacted the morning
of the 9th, on the Shaw farm, eight miles
northwest Of Huron Simeon Nelson and
Mrs Shaw had contested one of the notorious
Cameron claims. Both parties were living on
the land, their houses forty rods apart Mrs
Shaw was the first settler and made bona
fide filing on the tract while Nelson had only
built house and remained there
short time and did not make filing. The
contest was decided in favor of Mrs. Shaw,
whose family consisted of herself, Con Cor
win, 81 years old, and sister, Miss Alice Ly-
man. The morning of the 9th Corwin at
tempted to do some plowing, but was driven
off by Nelson with a Winchester rifle. E. G.
Lyman, n brother to Mrs. Shaw, Corwin,
Shaw and his mother Miss Lyman and g. A.
Kelsey went tc the field to work. Nelson
fired a shot from Winchester rifle at Lyman
but missed him. He then shot Corwin as he
was running from the field. Kelsey was the
next shot Mrs. Shaw and her sister both
stopped and beseeched Nelson to spare their
lives, but he refused. Mrs. Shaw was shot
through the head, spine and side Miss Ly-
man was shot through the head. He also cut
deep cash in her breast with knife. Go
ing to his wife Nellson said, sPve killed three
of them Now Pll shoot you and the child,
kill myself and end the trouble" Mrs. Neil
son ran from the house. Seeing that his wife
had fled, he put the gun to his left temple and
blep out his brains, falling only a short dis
tance from the door. The greatest excitement
has been caused by the tragedy, and hundreds
of people visited the scene Kelsey is dead
--Nolldorf, in communicating his govern
ment objections. limited that if the Sultan rat
ifed the convention such action might cost
him his throne. He also indirectly charged
England with bribing the grand visier with
e60O,0O0, and other palace officials with larger
amounts, inorder to secure their approval of
the convention. The Sultan, after his inter
view with Nolldorf, hurricdly summoned
Henry Drummond Wolf, special British en-
voy, with reference to Egypt and questioned
him as to the truth of these charges. Sir
Henry Indignantly denied he or his govern
ment had been guilty of bribery. The Turk
ish officials who were said to have received
the bribes also warmly protested their inno-
cencc of the charge.
Bon Jones, Chairman of the Republican
National Executive Committee, left Pittsburg
for New York recently He says whilo he did
not go there expressly to sec Blaine, he would
be present to bid him good-by. He added that
neither ho nor any other person could say
whether or not Blaine would come out as a
Presidential candidate. He thought Blaine
was not seeking the nomination.
Frederick Herman, of Pittsburg, Pa,
killed his 19-months-old daughter, beat his
wife fatally and then cut his throat, seyering
wind-pipe and jugular vain. Herman is a
Lutheran and his wife Catholic, but they
never differed on matters of faith until re-
Gently, when Mrs. Herman determined to
have the baby baptized into her church in
stead of the Lutheran.
Rev. Mr. Patch, of LeNIars, Iowa, will short.
ly leave for Watertown, D. T., where he has
accepted a call to proach. His going away is
much regretted by the people of LeMaru
Emperor William, on the advice of his
physicians, has decided not TO go to Leignitz
Tho Post learns that the Emperor will 90 to
Ems probably the 18th inst. and afterwards
to Gastein
"A letter from Santiago De Cuba dated
May q, says: At this writing $50 cases of
smallpox are known to exist and it is esti-
mated that 100 more are being treated by
charlatans. The deaths in this city from the
LIST to the 9th numbered 30, not ono of the
victims having been yaccinatod The disease
has spread in Guantanamo